6 max or full ring?
Learning to play shorthanded poker(6 max or less) is a necessary skill to become a well-rounded player. The ability to play shorthanded gives you many more games to choose from, and these games give you the opportunity to play many more hands and to play them more aggressively. I prefer shorthanded poker to full ring poker because of these reasons. The question is then why have I been playing more full ring tables recently?
The explanation for this is simple. It seems that most of the people who play shorthanded games at the current time have an idea of what they’re doing. Many of the true fish who don’t even understand the basics of the game seem to like to jump into the action at full ring tables. You won’t find a fish wandering into the shorthanded tables as often as you will find him wanting to sit at a table with eight or nine other players. I think that it’s more comforting to them to be able to see more hands without the blinds coming around to them more quickly.
Another reason for this is that all the training sites out there at the current time spend very little time producing videos with full ring content. The overwhelming majority of their videos are from 6 max games. With the training skewed toward the shorthanded games, it’s no wonder that you’ll find the tougher games there at the current time.
Between full ring and shorthanded games, I prefer shorthanded. Most importantly though, I want to play in whatever game gives me the best opportunity to make money. I will always choose that option over the number of players in a game.
It’s essential that you keep your options open in order to select the most profitable games. Sometimes the best games are shorthanded. Other times, the best choice is a full ring game. It’s very important to be able to play in both games in order to make the most money that you possibly can.
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